Pre FAL Project Manager

Gestal; Mirabel; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Gestal in Mirabel, Quebec, is seeking an Operations Function Project Manager to deploy and monitor key projects for A220 operations within Pre FAL. You will set up, monitor, and control activities relating to time, cost, quality, and performance to ensure project success.

You will lead planning, stakeholder engagement, KPI design, and governance, driving cross-functional collaboration in an industrial environment. French and English proficiency are expected.

Qualifications

• You have PMO or Project Manager experience in industrial or complex environments.
• You master the fundamentals of schedule, cost, resource, and risk management.
• You are comfortable with planning tools and dashboard design (KPIs).
• You can unite cross-functional teams and engage stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Create, pilot, and update detailed project schedules including critical path analysis.
• Map, engage, and align all key project stakeholders and management expectations.
• Design, deploy, and update dashboards and KPIs to enable decisions.
• Prepare, facilitate, and document progress reviews, committees and workshops.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate risks and opportunities with action plans.
• Structure action reviews and ensure rigorous follow-up to milestones.
• Design project communications and lead awareness sessions for stakeholders.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Dashboard design

Analytical thinking

Proactive & autonomous

Education

Master's degree (Engineering/Business/University)

Job description

You have project management experience, you have worked in aeronautics or in a manufacturing environment and you want to evolve and develop new skills? This position is for you!

We are looking for 1 Operations Function Project Manager to join our team of business partners in project management for functions supporting aircraft manufacturing based in Mirabel (Quebec, Canada), where you will be responsible for deploying and monitoring key projects for operations within the Pre FAL.

Your role as project manager will be to set up, monitor, and control the necessary activities in terms of time, cost, quality, and performance to achieve the success of the A220 operations function projects.

Your challenges:

• Planning and prioritization: Create, pilot, and update detailed project schedules, including critical path and variance analysis.
• Stakeholder Management and Engagement: Map, engage, and unite all key project stakeholders. You will be the guarantor of strategic alignment, expectation management, and the removal of organizational roadblocks.
• Performance Management: Design, deploy, and update dashboards and key performance indicators (KPIs) to facilitate decision-making.
• Facilitation and Governance: Prepare, facilitate, and document progress reviews, committees, and workshops (presentations, minutes).
• Risk Management: Identify, assess, and monitor risks and opportunities (R&O), as well as their mitigation plans.
• Action Plan Tracking: Structure action reviews and ensure rigorous follow-up (reminding managers, updating statuses).
• Communication: Design communication materials (project kits, presentations) and lead awareness sessions for all stakeholders.

Your profile:

• Higher education (Master's degree level, engineering, business school, or university), you have solid and proven experience as a PMO or Project Manager, ideally in an industrial or complex environment.
• Methodological Expertise: You fully master the fundamentals of project management (schedule, cost, resource, and risk management). You are very comfortable with planning tools and dashboard design (KPIs).
• Leadership & Persuasion: Endowed with excellent interpersonal skills, you are not a mere executor but a true conductor. You know how to unite cross-functional teams, negotiate, and show assertiveness to engage stakeholders.
• Analytical & Synthesis Spirit: You have a strong ability to take a step back. You know how to process complex data (critical paths, workload/capacity alignment) and present it in a simple and visual way to facilitate management decision-making.
• Proactivity & Autonomy: Solution-oriented, you are organized, rigorous, and know how to anticipate roadblocks. You naturally take the initiative in your areas to ensure milestones are met.
• Expected language skills:
• English: Intermediate
• French: Advanced